Blog #3- Due Friday, November 1st
Laissez Faire is a French word meaning "let alone to do" or "leave to do." It was also the economic policy of the United States throughout most of the 1800s. The policy stated that government should not interfere with business.
Do you think this was a good policy? (Think about monopolies, trusts, and pooling; think about working conditions)Should the government get involved in businesses? Why or why not?
How involved should the government be?
Be sure to give specific details or examples to support your answer.
1) I do not think laissez-faire was a good policy because the government needs to help control the powers of monopolies because of the horrible working conditions and child labor and other stuff like minimum wages.
ReplyDelete2) The government should help control the monopolies and all the bad things that come from it.
3) The government should be very involved, involved enough so that they can stop all the monopolies and trusts and child labor and minimum wage and clean up the harsh working conditions!!!!
Princess123, I almost completely agree with you. I believe the government should interfere with business just enough to set regulations or rules for the company to follow, but not interfere enough to completely control the business.
DeleteI agree with you entirely; the government SHOULD be involved and SHOULD help control the powers of monopolies, terrible working conditions, low wages, etc. But again, they should only be involved so they can help, not take control of everything.
DeleteI agree that the working conditions for workers was just terrible and monopolies did lead to the decline of other businesses but I don't think government should get too involved because then the government would pretty much be taking over that business. The government would decide all the rules and it would probably monitor what goes on there. So you're right that it would eliminate harsh working conditions and monopolies, but then that would allow the government to make a lot of decisions.
Deletei agree with you and yes they should fix the all the bad things.
DeleteFor the bad working conditions people can create unions. Unions don't have anything to do with government, they are completely sustained by the people. i dont know what people would do about the monopolies
DeleteI agree with you on all of your answers because they government should have stepped their game up also get rid of child labor because if kids where working they couldn't go to school and get an education
DeleteI know child labor was horible and so was the working conditions. Sooooooooooooooooo unsanitary!
DeleteI agree with you.
DeleteI agree with the policy. i think that we should be able to do what we want in are own buisness
DeleteYeah i agree that the government shouldn't completely take over the business but they seriously need to step up!!!
Deletethts exactly how i feel, laissez faire wasnt good at all because of child labor and long hours and things like that. we need government to end those things and give workers what they deserve
DeleteRemember that the government cant get involved into businesses to an extensive degree or else the business and all businesses aren't owned by the people anymore, just government controlled. Other than that there needs to be regulations and limits on what can and cant businesses do. There needs to be that line where the government is involved but not too involved to where it is just the government basically running the economy.
DeleteI definently agree. The government should stop trusts and monopolies
DeleteLaissez Fair put such a negative affect on the country, Factories had terrible working conditions. Many children were injured unjamming machines. Many consumers got sick because of the meat packing industry and how unsanitary the packing was.
DeleteIt is but it isn't at the sametime the economic policy of the United States throughout most of the 1800s but the government was not interfere with the business and it is a good policy but it dont involve the government and little kids working for the meet product is not right for little kids they shout be at school instead.Yes the government should get involve in all of the businesses because the little kids need to have people to protect them if they get hurt and little kids with small hands that can reach in the machines but they shouldnt have to.
ReplyDeletecountrygirl1997, I do not understand what you wrote completely, but I understand enough to see that you want the government to interfere with business. I agree with you, but not for the same reasons. Your focus was on the children working in the factories, and mine was on how much power the factories will have in their field of production. I think the government shouldn't be completely in a company's "business", but just enough to regulate what that company will do.
Deletei agree with you i sad that kids loss there arms and have to go threw the plain. Its very sad to know kids our age were treated this way.
DeleteI agree with you on child labor and i feel strongly about my opinion. The government should get involved but i don't think so much because the government would side with the owners.
DeleteDo you think child labor was the only thing wrong with the businesses or do you think there was also other bad things?
DeleteThere is a lot of stuff in the business that the government needs to help out because little kids don't need to be getting hurt.
DeleteI don't think that the government should be allowed in businesses since the policy said the same thing and it talks also about monoplies trusts and pooling which was terrible for small businesses and working conditions were also terrible since children were working in the factories and in the meqat packing industry most of the meat had nasty thing in it like rats body parts and instead of using sinks the workers washed their hands in the water used for the meat so I don't think the government should get involed in businesses
ReplyDeleteMeg Griffin, I don't completely understand what you wrote, but I know enough to see that you want the government to get involved in business because of how you are afraid of how the companies are unsanitary without regulations. I agree with you completely.
DeleteI agree. I disagree with the fact that Government should get involved in businesses. I feel they should have some pull in businesses such as outlawing certain harmful things, but I understand they shouldn't be allowed to get involved with everything. Do you think we need the Government sometimes?
DeleteI disagree with you on how you think the government shouldnt get involved because child labor can go on and the meat indusrty would have been giving the peoplr bad food. also the dirtiness which can make people sick.
DeleteIf you said those were horrible things then why don't you think the government should get involved?
DeleteI agree that the monopolies,trusts, and monopolies were bad for the small businesses. I also agree that child labor and bad working conditions were terrible. But I disagree that if these things are happening, the government shouldn't get involved. The government SHOULD get involved because they can help fix the problems.
DeletePopcorn28, I think that your point is valid but how far do you think the government should get involved? Fair working conditions and no monopolies and trusts is very important but im talking about how far should the government go? Is there a fine line where there shouldn't be any affect on a certain part of the business so the owners have some control? Tell me what you think.
DeleteI AGREE TOO THT MOMOPLIES R BAD FOR SMALLER BUSINESSES BECAUSE IF WE DID NOT HAV MOMOPLIES BIGGER BUSINESSES WOULD RULE ALMOST ANYTHING
Deletei think that the government should interfere with businesses just a little bit but they cant control all the businesses. Meaning they should help with things like workers safety but should not control how the entire business functions
ReplyDeletetell me if you agree or disagree
ILIVEINAHOUSE, I agree with how you think the government should interact with businesses. The government should give businesses some room to grow, but not enough to grow into monopolies.
DeleteI agree with you it sounds good
DeleteI agree with this very much because if govement was involved in everything they would make unfair laws and overpower stuff
DeleteI agree with what you say. That is exactly how I feel. I certaintly think that we need the the Government in some aspects of businesses but not all aspects.
DeleteI agree with you on everything you said because the government should only interfere with things that are necessary (work safety, child labor)
DeleteI think that the government too. I think that because the the government can look over the products.
DeleteI agree, government now has to much say in business, they need to let business be its self and not put to many constraints on it, especially price setting.
DeleteI agree with you but I think to get in specifics, what should they specifically get involved in? Should prices be limited by the government, or do you think since the owner knows what is fair out of his/her profit margins but is fair to all consumers? There is more than just working conditions and child labor that the government needs to regulate. But where do you think the government should start and where do the stop? Fine details are important so the big businesses don't find the loop holes to cheat the system.
DeleteI don't think that the government should interfere with businesses because businesses should have freedom to do what they desire and not what the government thinks that they should do. I do agree partially, I think that only big businesses should be watch by the government because small businesses need room to expand in profit and they need to know what type of competition is out across the world.
DeleteI think the policy was a bad policy. there are various reasons i think this. one reason is because if the government wouldnt come into businesses the people of america would not be the people we are today. when i say this i mean we wouldnt be close to other contries. also i mean we would be in more conflict not just with other countries, but also with our own people.
ReplyDeletethe government should only be able to do inspections on foods and even goods. if the government couldnt do inspections many people could get hurt and also very sick
mr.nice guy, although I do not completely understand what you wrote, I think I have the prominent idea. I think you are saying that if the government didn't get involved with businesses, businesses might use as least money as possible to produce products, causing people to get mad and not buy it. Not only from the States, but from other countries.
Deletei agree fully
DeleteI agree with you, however I think we should still have a large trade system but we would also need to keep it under control or some sort of surveillance.
Deletei agree they should also mandate things such as worker saftey
Deletei partially disagree they should get more involved to the piont were everyone is safe and is being fairly paid
DeleteI agree somewhat with what you were trying to say. America would not be what it is today yes, but WHY? The key question is WHY would we not be close to other countries? Tariffs are taxes on imported goods, so if you have a high tariffs, most American businesses will get more products sold ,but will hurt consumers because a lower price is increased. America benefits from more products made here will be bought but at the price of the consumers being hurt. WHY is a key question to ask yourself and is very important, so question yourself, it will help you because you give more detail to prove to yourself.
DeleteI do believe that the Laissez Faire policy is not a good policy because of the fact that without limits, businesses will do whatever they can do to dominate their field of production. The government shouldn't get involved in business though, because businesses should have their own freedom within set government regulations.
ReplyDeleteCould you give me some examples of what you say as government regulations? What category of production do you think needs to be adjusted to help an everyday American? I agree with you but do you think that current regulations are unfair or that there is a better way for consumers to benefit?
DeleteI think that laissez faire was a bad policy because they won"t interfere with businesses. Which I think government should interfere a little so there won't be little kids with missing arms amd legs. Also the working comditions were horrible like stuff on the floor and big machines they can get hurt with and they worked long hours with low pay. Like i already said government should be involved not a lot but they should be involved.
ReplyDeleteI do not think that the policy "laissez-faire" is a good policy because the government needs to be involved in the major businesses. They need to see and understand all the problems that are happening in these businesses. If the government did NOT get involved, then child labor, unsanitary working conditions and low wages would probably still be occurring in big businesses today.
ReplyDeletei agree too. if government where not involve in business there would still be unfair working conditions today
DeleteAlthough Laissez Faire does allow people more freedom to choose what they want to do with their businesses and what "turn" they want to take with it, Laissez Faire has a lot of downfalls. Using Laissez Faire meant people who owned businesses could hire anyone they wanted when they wanted. As a business owner you want to have the most efficient way to create products so in the long-run you create more profit. But, you also needed workers to make your products. The cheapest workers to pay and to "replace" were immigrants. If something happened to that worker that they couldn't do the job they did anymore, they were fired and replace with another immigrant looking for work. Child labor was also very common. Little children had small hands that could put together watches or pull out pieces of fabric trapped in a jammed machine. This work was especially dangerous since these children were so young, (they could be 8 years old!) because they didn't know any better than what they were told so as a result, they lost limbs and fingers. To make things worse, the conditions in factories was awful. The floors were dirty with grim and debris from machines,and the windows were always locked so you would breath-in any dust flying around (this led to lots of lung problems). Many immigrant children didn't even have shoes! The bosses of many factories didn't eve care if you got hurt. They wouldn't even let you go to the bathroom without getting your pay docked. Many immigrants were also required to buy there own supplies to use. This was especially true with the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. The workers bought there own supplies to use and had to work very long hours. The bosses would turn the clocks' hands back to make it seem like it was earlier in the day than it really was. All the doors were bolted shut to prevent anyone from leaving work early. That's why, when the factory caught on fire, people jumped out of windows. Anyone who jumped out the windows died hitting the pavement. The nets were too thin to with-hold the force of the people jumping, and the fire ladders were too short to reach the top of the building. When the fire was over, more than 120 people died in the Triangle fire.(The bosses escaped.)(This is why it was so dangerous to work in factories). Factory owners also liked to use trusts (ways to take-in other businesses to make the larger business even bigger.) This helped create monopolies and eliminate other businesses so the only factory in that industry could products and make more profit. In the end, Laissez Faire just makes more problems than solves them.
ReplyDeleteThe government should get involved in business just enough to regulate the standards like good conditions for workers but not to take over that business' control. That way, the government can make sure workers aren't getting hurt and businesses still have freedom to choose the "direction" their business is moving towards.
I agree with you and very good detail but if you give that much detail about how bad Laissez Faire was, why would Laissez Faire even exist? It did give the people more power but you have to be able to realize the full side of each argument to decide and explain why one side is better than the other.
DeleteThis was a horrible policy.
ReplyDeleteThe government should be invovled enough to make sure of things like workers saftey and fair pay otherwise the government should stay out of bussines
I agree.It was a horrible policy.
Deletei also agree! they should only be involved to set prices and good working conditions but other than that they should stay out
Delete1) I dont think Laissez Faire is a good policy because the government needs to help control businesses and the monopolies that businesses make.
ReplyDelete2) Government should get involved in businesses because businesses will use children in their factories and this is a safety issue because little kids fingers, arms, and hands get cut off from the machines. The government also needs to be involved in businesses because of the low pay that workers get. Workers should be getting a fair pay for the kind of working conditions they are working in, which is bad working conditions. The government needs to help stop this.
3) The government should be involved in businesses enough to stop monopolies, child labor, low pay, bad working conditions, etc. but not too involved that the whole business is being taken over by the government. The businesses deserve to at least be a little "free" (free from being totally ruled by government.)
I completely agree with every single thing you said. The government should get involved because of child labor, bad working conditions, and monopolies but they shouldn't take over. That's not fair to the business owners, it is THEIR business.
DeleteI also agree with everything. Does anyone know what the law says about monopolies and working conditions??
Deletepopcorn28, I agree that its not fair to the business owners that the government takes over their businesses, because your right that its THEIR business.
DeleteI agree with your answer to number 2. If there are no inspections and the owners of the business are intimidating, then people will be under paid and poorly treated if government doesn't step in.
DeleteI think the policy was a bad policy because it gave business owners too much freedom to do whatever they want, which could be quite horrible things, such as putting smaller businesses out of business and create horrible working conditions. I do think the government should get involved with certain things in regulating business. The government should get involved in working conditions such as pay, sanitary conditions, and creating safer conditions. I also think the government should get involved to stop monopolies, trusts, etc. In conclusion, the government should get involved with working conditions for workers and deal with monoplies, trusts, etc.
ReplyDeleteI think that the Laissez Faire policy was not a good policy. Just like other people said above if the government hadn't gotten involved with the big businesses and monopolies than small businesses couldn't have survived, and there might have still been child labor if it hadn't been for the government. Also, the workers wouldn't be able to speak up if something was wrong because the owners had too much power.
ReplyDeleteThe government should be allowed to interfere, but to a certain extent. The government should be involved so we don't have problems like child labor, too much power, unsafe/clean working conditions, and low wages. The government shouldn't be involved too much though or else that could take away from taking care of other important matters in our government, but they should be allowed to make laws regarding businesses. It should be so that the rules aren't so tight that they can barely run their business but involved enough so that everyone is safe.
I think the government should interfere with business in some ways but not others . so it keeps people safe. but allows some freedom .
ReplyDeleteI agree! The government needs to be involved in businesses enough to stop child labor, monopolies, trusts, etc.
DeleteI completely agree, it would be anarchy without inspection. However, you made an excellent point on how there should be freedom in business, because some things are ok
DeleteNo, I do not think that this was a good policy because people were getting hurt and working conditions were not safe. I think that the government should get involved somewhat with businesses to at least give a thorough inspection of what is actually happening because they could be hiding something from everyone and/or send out mercenaries to kill the people who say anything about them.
ReplyDeleteLaissez Faire was a bad policy because it caused many problems starting with the big businesses having to much power over the small. For example, Laissez Faire prevented a law against this, so many businesses slashed prices to put everyone else out of business and, once they had a monopoly, raised the prices again. This put many people out of work and broke. Businesses also had the freedom to make food and inedible and gross as they wanted (the meat packing industry). Many people were sick because of the poison in the rats that were often thrown into the meat and from the workers washing their hands after touching raw meat in the water used to soak the sausages in. And there was no law against child labor, so many small kids were given low pay and many hours in which they worked in harsh conditions causing lost limbs and fatal incidents. Using these examples, you can infer that it's better to have government involved with business to prevent this. They should be able to run inspections on workers safety and cleanliness and enforce no monopolies.
ReplyDelete1) i dont think laissez-faire was a good policy because there are mainly different reasoens. One reason is that the government wouldnt agree to come into the businesses. Another reason is child labor and working conditions. They had control and power they could do what ever they wanted. This was a bad and sad thing.
ReplyDelete2) The government should help these people and fix what needs to be fixed. its a sad and very mean thing the kids and adults.
3)The government should be very involved They should be involved to stop the mess thats been made. For an example they should stop child labor.
i agree with you on the government should be invovled with the mess (child labor)
DeleteI think Laissez Faire should be limited. It is good and bad at the same time. It is bad because in alot of situatons there were bad working conditions low pay and child labor. Also there were the gross problems with the meat packing industries. The government could help stop these bad conditions. On the other hand buisnesses should be self sustaining. If there is a problem the people just won't buy the product. The government shouldn't have the power to dictate all the buisnesses. The government could make laws, such as raising minimum pay or making the conditons better, but then companies would have to spend more money on these things and may go bankrupt. I know what im saying sounds pretty bad but i just mostly think that the government should stay out of buisness matters.
ReplyDeleteI think your knowledge of both sides is very strong and has given me a new perspective, but be able to expand on what you have said with core details like the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and what caused that and what resulted from that? Government needs to be involved to make everything safe, fair, and products need to be fairly priced, but there needs to be freedom within the boundaries.
DeleteI feel that the policy of Laissez Faire was a bad policy. I feel this way because when business owners created monopolies this was harmful to other people because people would become bankrupt and weren't able to keep their businesses. During this time monopolies were created by business owners and monopolies weren't created by the Government. Now what we are learning about during the Progressive Era industrialization was a huge factor in the U.S.. Working conditions, child labor, long hours, and low wages were bad. The Government didn't really have a say during this time until laws started being created from things such as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. But, before Government got involved conditions in factories and problems in them were horrible. I feel the Government should be involved in problems or matters most of the time, so about 75%-85%. Things look like they start to shape up when the Government gets involved. I don't feel they should control everything though. Then it would be unfair to us as citizens.
ReplyDeletei agree with you in some parts because not all of the monopolies where bad there where some good parts about it to but most of it was unfair like you said but it was for a reason
DeleteCould you give me monopolies that were good for the U.S. during this time?? Frankly I do not feel they were good at all. I have to disagree with you on that.
Deletevolleyball#3, I kind of agree with you about the monopolies and how they were all bad. I feel like there were not any good monopolies. However, there were some good tariffs. Tariffs and monopolies are kind of the same so I'm going to say how some tariffs were good. Tariffs were good because high tariffs helped American business owners. However, tariffs hurt consumers. The only thing about good tariffs is that they helped American industries but hurt consumers.
Deletei think the government should be involved with businesses but not too much. I think that because businesses can turn into monopolies which that is very bad for the economy. Also the trust can cause problems. I think that the government shouldn't be involved a lot because they can try to be controlling and also can create things that they want. I also think that the government should have involve their self's more with the working conditions because of child labor and low paying.
ReplyDeleteI think that the small businesses should not have to have the government watch over them. I think they should be left alone to do their own thing. If they are small that means that not a lot of people are buying their products so that means they have the time to make perfect ones. On the other hand. I think big businesses should have the government watching over them. With the big businesses that means a lot of people are buying there product so they are going as fast as they possibly can to produce the product so they get money. That means that they don’t care what they are giving out as long as they are getting the money. That means that they could do whatever they felt like doing. Not caring about if it is editable or not. If they had the government watching over them maybe they will be able to produce HEALTHY items instead of NON-HEALTHY items. Also with the immigrants coming over that makes the workers that work in the factory not have a say in what’s going on. If they say something the owner does not like, they could be easily fired because the owner knows that they can replace the workers easily. That is my opinion on this.
ReplyDeletei totally agree with you, small businesses should be able to do what they want to know.
DeleteI disagree with u FTSKmusic Small businesses shouldnt be able to do whatever they want
DeleteI don't think small businesses should be able to do whatever they want. Government should give small businesses some rules to follow. FTSKmusic, why do you feel small businesses should be allowed to do whatever they want?
DeleteI agree that the government shouldn't be able to watch over small businesses. I also agree that big businesses should have the government watching over them.
DeleteThe government needs to be involved with work because that was a very big problem especially the safety of the workers and how much they got paid at work. Also they should check products before they sell them out to the people.
ReplyDeletei agree that the government should make sure that the products are safe before they go out to market. How do you think they would have the most efficient way for them to check the products?
DeleteThey should not be involved to much to where they are controlling businesses. For example if i were a business i would not want the government to chose my prices, my building,my employees and all the rules. They should just monitor for bad activity and u8njust acts.
DeleteI agree with you because if the government wasn't involved the factory could become crazy and there could be child labor and poor conditions and the factory owner could a really big monopoly
DeleteThis is not a good policy.The government should get involved because monopolies are not a good thing. Monopolies trick consumeres by making them think the low prices will stay that way, but they don't. The Sherman Anti Trust Act was not created for no reason.It was created to prevent trusts or monopolies from being built/made.Also there were bad working conditions. the work area in a meat packing industry was unsanitary and completely disgusting.Child labor was absolutly horible. Kids a lot of times would have no shoes on and they were long hours for little kids.Thats why organized labor happened.
ReplyDeleteI think the government should be involved with businesses. One reason I think this is because there were monopolies, which weren't fair to small businesses and eventually ruled out all competition. Another reason I think this is because of child labor, children were more likely to get hurt working in factories and didn't get an education. Another reason I think this is because of the poor working conditions, the factories were very unsanitary and weren't safe. The workers were also paid very little for the hours they worked. I think the government should be involved enough to make laws about these things but not so involved that they are practically running their business.
ReplyDeletei think the government should be involved because companies have bad working conditions. this will allow the government to change the working conditions like what happend with the meat industry.
ReplyDeletei think this will be a good policy because this will help stop monopolies and trust.this will cause large companies to stop rising prices during competition
ReplyDeleteI agree with you because the government must keep the craziness down so the factory owner can't take over everything and have a really big monopoly
DeleteI think the government should be a little more involved for the safety of the workers. Just in case a worker gets hurt doing their job. Also to make sure the products are okay. If it's food they should make sure it is healthy to make sure the customers dont get sick. I think it would be more helpful for everyone so they wont have to worry so much about if it is worth buying or not.
ReplyDeleteNo I believe this is/was not a good policy. It gave to much leniency or power and this gave room for cheating and lying in the business world. This also let monopolies happen because some one had to many trusts and knocked out the competition. And monopolies are not good because they influence the government and it is hard to get rid of them. Lastly they made a really big gap, a too big of a gap between the rich and the poor. The government should be ivolved in buisnesses but not to where they control them, just to monitor them and keep them in line. I believe this because as Abraham Lincoln said "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." this applies to when people have a monopolies they dont make smart choices and abuse their power.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that small businesses should be watched over by the government because they wouldn't be able to do what they wanted, if they wanted to change or modify something to a project already created. I do not think that Laissez Faire was a good process because the Government needs to help with the problems of monopolies. For Example: Child Labor, Minimum wages, Horrible working conditions. The government should help control monopolies and a whole bunch of other things.
ReplyDeletei think monopolies were terrible things. The government should be involved with work because then there wouldn't be any monopolies, and people would have better working conditions. The government should only be as involved as they need to be in order to allow for people to have decent working conditions. The government should make sure that people's products are safe to sell to the economy.
ReplyDeleteI think the government should interfere with business but to an extent. They should only be able to interfere with extreme things ( child labor, working conditions, etc) however it shouldnt be able to interfere with the little things. They also shouldn't make ridiculously over strict laws on certain topics.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you they should do as little as possible but some
DeleteThe government should be involved with business. there are some real crazy and greedy psychopaths out there and the government needs to interfere and make sure that there are no harmful conditions.
ReplyDeletethe government should be able to interfere with government so there is no...
ReplyDelete1. child labor
2. dangerous working conditions
3. long hours
4. unfair pay
5. no breaks
Yeah but there still should be rules and the gov should monitor activity in the business world. So there is no cheating and monopolies and unfair treatment.
Deleteand no monopolies
DeleteI do not agree with you because they made laws on these things so it would be impossible to do them today. So the government should make laws just not get involved with businesses.
Deletei agree with that
DeleteYes, I think that the government should be involved with work because the safety for most people isn't good. Plus how much they have to work and how much they get payed its not right the workers work for long hours sometimes even up to 14 to 16 hours a day an they get payed very little... So that's why i think that the government should get involved with businesses/ work cause the work is good but they dont get very good pay.
ReplyDeleteI agree but i also think that they should not be able to control pay. I think as long as the conditions are fine, they should recieve what they work for.
DeleteLaissez Faire was not a good policy because the government should not leave businesses to do whatever, but on the other hand the government should not be way too involved, they should not control the business. I think that the government should be involved in big businesses, but only enough so that they can help stop monopolies, child labor, low wages, and bad working conditions. I don`t think the government needs to be too much involved in the smaller businesses because they are not as popular as the big businesses, so they have time to test, evaluate, and modify their products.
ReplyDeleteNo, i do not think this is a good policy because if you think about the meat packing industy we would still be eating nasty meat if the government didnt get involved.
ReplyDeleteYes, the government should get involved because we could have a bunch of monopolies then we would have to pay so much more money for one thing.
The government should be involved some but not all the time,give the people some power but not all of it so we can maintain a healthy lifesyle but not do whatever we want.
This was a good sytem for the government. People got what they wanted and the government got what they wanted in return. The government got more money and the people got less working hours and more pay. There were safer working conditions, and no more child labor. The government should only get involved in buisnesses if they are involved in monopolies. Otherwise the government should not get into buisness things. Only if monopolies are happening. I think that the government should only get involved if monopolies are happening becasue if they arent doing anything bad then theres no reason to get invloved.
ReplyDeleteI dont think that it was a good policy because the meat industry made there meat and it made others ill. They put a chemical in there meat so that the meat looked good to eat. I think that the government should be in the big businesses because they can look over the products before they are shipped out. They should be very involved because they can make sure the products are made right.
ReplyDeleteI think they should only be a little bit involved. I mean, doesn't it bug you when your mom keeps trying to make you eat your vegtables? Its basically the same thing.
Deletethis was not a good idea because children was working the most dangerous jobs. the children would loose fingers and other body parts. the goverment should be involved because the children would not get enough money also because of the hazerdous machines the children will have to use daily. the goverment should be involved 100% so that know one will get hert
ReplyDeletei agree with u i love my mommy micole i just wrote what u wrote about the safty of people
ReplyDeleteLaissez Faire was not a good policy because people couldn't stop the control of monopolies and there were harsh working conditions and low pay also long days could be up to 16 hours long. I think the government should get involved in big businesses because if they aren't businesses will think they can do anything they want.For example the meat industry was putting some acid or chemical to make the meat look good when it actually is expired. I think Government should be involved as much as possible to keep monopolies from happening and child labor the children are the most helpful when machines get stuck and then have their hands chopped off when the machines run again.They wont have a good education and when they grow up they will be working in the same factory.
ReplyDeleteI think that the Laissez Faire was not a good policy because the businesses would do really bad thinks. They would have the poorest working conditions and very low pay for the workers so they wouldnt have to spend anny more money than they are asposed to on the business. The government should get involved in the buisness because it would provent the owner from getting too out of hand and doing what ever they want. The government should get involved but not too involved that they are makeing every choice that should happen.
ReplyDelete@zombiedinosaur00 I agree that the government should be involved in big businesses but i don't think the government would take control of everything because that is what the monopolies are doing. Getting competition go out of business and when no business is left they rise all the prices.
ReplyDeleteLaissez Faire was not a good policy for the United States government.The government should get involved with buissness because of all the things that the buisnesses were doing.They had unsafe working conditions for their workers, the workers were under paid, Kids worked, and the biggest thing was that the big bussineses had monopolies which were not a good thing.Because of these the government should be involved in government. They should be because they would help the workers by making laws about working conditions and monopolies.That is how much the government should be involved.(:
ReplyDeleteLaissez Faire is a good idea because business know what their doing when it comes to their specialty. The government does not know everything about every business so they should play a very little role. Yes there were some problems like child labor and businesses and the meat packing industry but they made laws to protect those things. So yes I do agree with Laissez Faire
ReplyDeleteThe government should be involved in business, this is how, they should monitor the activity and the safety but nothing else, besides how the workers are being treated an the minimum pay.
ReplyDeleteI agree they should not have a say unless there is a safety violation or poor working conditions
DeleteI agree with you because, they can just throw in rats, and pop, and peoples fingers.
Delete@agent swagger10 Yes child labor is extreme because they are getting hurt by fixing machines are not getting a good education and don't have shoes while working and that's the poor working conditions. 16 hours a day and made 1 dollar a month or week
ReplyDeleteI dont think Laissez Faire wasnt a good policy because they shouldnt let businesses have thier own freedom put certain limits on things but still let them do what they have to do to have a successful business. The government should be involved to do health inspections about the bad working conditions and make sure there not doing things like monoplies and other bad things.
ReplyDeletei agree with you. the government should be able to do instections and they should have some kind of say in how the buisnesses work.
DeleteYes because the government has no reason to be in their business. What are they gonna do once they get their. Theyll be like, hey you doin a good job keep it up. Like whats the point. I dont think that the government should be involved at all. They have business with being in other peoples business.
ReplyDeleteI don't completely agree with what you said i mean i know that the government shouldn't completely get involved but they should at least try to step up and do some good to the bad like taking care of cold labor and the harsh working conditions
DeleteI don't agree with you on that. Since most businesses will probably try (if they are able to create them) to use monopolies, trusts, pools, etc. to earn more money. If the government doesn't get involved, then the company can set the price as high as they want and hurt the economy and anger the people. Since monopolies put other companies out of business, and makes unemployment rates higher, which results in the economy dropping. If the government doesn't get involved, businesses have the freedom to do what ever they want in the business field, which will hurt everyone.
DeleteI agree, but dont you think they need a check-up to see if they may be putting someone in danger or being unfair?
Deletei get what you are saying but if they just left them alone then people/ big buisnesses would have control over all buisnesses. they wouldnt be letting any other buisness have any chance.
Deleteyes but what if the business isn't doing a good job and its not sanitary. that could be bad for anyone who buys the product and they could get sick.
Deletethis is good and bad because it lets business do as they please and grow as they want but if they get to big they may get a monopoly and they will raise their prices
ReplyDeleteyes I think the government should get involved so the business cant get to big and to powerful
ReplyDeletethe government has to let business make their own choices but they also put limits on their growthso they don't get out of control.
ReplyDeleteI think Laissez Fair during the early stages of our nation was a bad idea then. government intervention was needed to prevent monopolies from forming and hurting small business.The government also needed to help stop the poor working condition, if they would have acted early on this problem we might not of had the triangle shirtwaist fire. some government oversight in business is good but business today need to be able to set their own prices.
ReplyDeletei do not think that Laissez Faire was a good policy. I think that the government should"ve been involved because of all the horrible things that were happening. For example working conditions, the working conditions were unsafe because there were no fire alarms and very poorly made fire escapes. also the workers were under paid, kids under 15 were working long hours. I think the government should be involved in business because then maybe they could work on fixing these problems. I think that the government should be involved and make decisions that a lot of people think should be made. But the government should not make ALL the decisions.
ReplyDeleteI think Laissez Faire should have been comprimised. I believe that businesses should not be hovered over by government, but i believe that government should check businesses to make sure they are not unclean, unfair, or eliminating competition. Government should check in every month for different inspections like health inspections, safety inspections, and more but i also think that businesses are their own thing and dont need a Government advisor.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, the Laissez Faire policy, that existed throughout most of the 1800's, had both positive and negative qualities. Essentially, the original concept of the Laissez Faire policy had good intentions and therefore I believe it was a good policy. However, businesses became selfish in nature and took advantage of the government and its inability to interfere. Consequently, the Laissez Faire policy, from my perspective, ultimately had a negative connotation. More specifically, business owners during this time period frequently manipulated government officials to pass laws that would increase their own profit margin. Furthermore, business owners did not provide employees with ample salaries or acceptable working conditions, again supporting my thoughts on why the Laissez Faire policy failed.
ReplyDeleteIt is evident, that based on my prior statements, I strongly feel that our government should be involved on some level in businesses. Government involvement will minimize the prospect of monopolies and trusts in the business world. Without governmental oversight, businesses have the potential to increase prices of products and eliminate any upcoming competition. I believe that the government should have a working relationship with businesses but, I think that the government can only accomplish this after having developed specific parameters for businesses to adhere to. Such parameters will allow business owners to make decisions within a formal framework. This, in turn, allows the government to intercede if the parameters are not being adhered to. Despite the good intentions of the Laissez Faire policy, future economic policies should have more governmental involvement to ensure an ethical future.
I agree with all your statements except that i feel that government should have less than more involvement in businesses.
DeleteI also agree that the government should interfere with big business, but how much is too much?
Deleteyes because the goverment shouldent be in there business. They have no reason to be all up in there business because it has nothing to do with the government. If it had alot to do with the government then i would see why they get all in there business i dont think the government should be able to to that at all.
ReplyDeleteI don't agree with that because no one could make any money bc of those big business owners
Deletei disagree because the businesses were making unsanitary things and had very unsafe working conditions. they would allow children to work and people would lose limbs!
DeleteI don't think Laissez Faire was a good idea because they business owners are creating monopolies and trusts which are not good for America or small businesses. Also business owners had child labor and poor working conditions which was a huge problem. For example, the Meat Packing Industry had rat poop in their meat which people ate and caused them to become ill. Also, during child labor, children could get their finger or arm cut off by a machine when they were fixing it. I believe that if the government were involved, then these types of horrible things wouldn't happen. But I don't think the government needs to completely take over, just help the workers and consumers.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you say. I feel that the Government wouldn't of let a lot of those things happen like you said. When the Governments eyes actually opened up to see what happened in the meat packing industry they made changes. Just like what happened with the Triangle shirtwaist situation. There eyes got open up and they saw what was actually happening so they changed the norm.
Deletei think the government should only make sure there is safe and clean working conditions but stay out of the financial part
Deletei think that the government being involved with big businesses was a good thing because if not for them the robber barons would end up having more power than the government. if that happened then we'd end up having bad laws and probably wars. the progressive era wouldnt have happened and we'd still be eating rat poop and us kids would be in a factory right now getting paid $00.50 an hour. then we'd go home to eat the rat poop we just packaged then go to sleep next to 11 other people while human waste is sitting and rotting in an air duct 3 feet from our heads. so i thing the government did the right thing getting involved
ReplyDeleteLazziez Faire is bad i made it harder for the goverment to make child labor laws. It didnt allow them to stop unsafe working conditions. One example was the meat industry. Also unsafe products such as meat and the chemicals.
ReplyDeletei agree the government shouldn't be able to control the business completely but they need to inspect things and also set safety standards
Deletei dont think it was a good thing because small buisnesses were being taken over and never really had a chance to prove if they were a good buisness or not. monopolies were good for the bigger buisnesses but they hurt then smaller buisnesses. until the government got involved and said that there was going to be no more monopolies there were only the big buisnesses around with outragious prices. it is also a good thing tho because it lead the u.s to be one of the most industrialized country.
ReplyDeleteI think that it is a bad thing. I think this because it lets buisness owner take advantage of people and make them work long hours for little money. it also allowed there to be bad working conditions and child labor. These are reasons why the government should come in and make rules and regulations for buisnesses and work places.
ReplyDeletei agree, if anything the government is trying to help business out!!
Deletei think this was a bad thing because it made it harder to past child labor laws. it made it harder for good working condiitions.
ReplyDeleteyes i think this is a good idea and no i do not think the government should get involved with businesses because they should do what they have to do to make money.
ReplyDeleteyes but doing what they have to do to make money could be bad for the people
Deletei disagree i think that the government should've been totally involved
DeleteYes if the government didn't get involved with businesses there still could have been child labor and unsanitary working conditions and all those other problems would still have been in the businesses but since the government created some laws like the Meat Inspection Act we don't have those problems. But i am not trying to change your opinion i can see in some ways how Laissez Faire is bad.
Deletei don't think it was a good thing because Small businesses were being taken over and never really had a chance to prove if they were a good businesses or not and also if he government were to not join in then the peoples business would be over ran by bigger business and then the government would take over and then they would have to stop trust because if they didn't then they would lose a lot of money
ReplyDeleteI agree and never thought about how the young businesses got a chance to prove themselves
DeleteI agree with you completely. You state many great details to help support tht statement
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Deletei agree completely. the big businesses shouldnt take over because they could control all the prices.
DeleteI have mixed feelings about Laissez Faire. I think it is good and bad. Good on the aspect that an american is free and should not have government interference, while bad in that with out help alot americans can loose everything and become ruined due to some richer americans monopolies and trusts.Now how much should the government be involved? I think the Government should find a medium between no involvement and involvement.
ReplyDeletealthough i do agree that americans are free they should still be regulated, when is says free they still have things that they can not do such as murder or anything illegal this is the same it is bad and should be illegal as well
DeleteI think that government should get involved in big buisnesses because if they didn't then the buisnesses would take over everything like their workers houses then the workers would get less pay because they had to pay rent.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you and don't you thing the government could take over the factory and band things that could be useful to use in life.
DeleteI believe that the laissez faire is unfair because the government should be involved to get rid of trusts and monopolies. we need that to be able to have competition
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you on the fact that we need competition, if there wasn't any competition there wouldn't be any improvements on their products if the companies don't have anyone to compete against. i also agree with you that laissez faire is unfair because the government needs to have control over the big businesses so the businesses don't have too much power.
DeleteI do not believe that it was a good idea to exclude the government from business. Having no government regulations allowed one person to control an industry. If they had control of all of the competition, they could raise the prices as high as they wanted (unless they were so high that people stopped buying). Not only would they have this kind of control over the industry, but they were also able to do this to their workers. it didn't matter if someone was payed less than what we consider minimum wage, because they couldn't get a better paycheck anywhere else. I think that it was wise for the government to intervene, and that the changes were for the better.
ReplyDeleteI think that Laissez Faire had some good things to it and some bad things to it. One thing that is good about Laissez Faire is that if one person wants to treat people poorly and have child labor in their factories and they could have really big monopolies and then then government could step in a band that person from child labor and having a really big monopolies. One bad thing about Laissez Faire is that the government could just take over the factory and make laws and band people and things that come into the factory that are good for the factory.
ReplyDeletethe government would make laws and do all that stuff to the factory so the people wouldnt get sick because what they were selling was unhealthy
DeleteYou are right that both the Laissez faire has some bad, I didn't realize that. Another bad thing could be that the government could be too controlling with the businesses, or the government and businesses wouldn't agree on something, that could be a problem too.
DeleteI think that the government should get involved because if they didn't working conditions could possibly get worse and there would be more trust and monopolies regulations allowed one person to the raise the prices however high they wanted it to be and that would be bad for consumers. (unless people wouldn't buy the products).Then that's not it they could do this too their workers like making work longer hours and no minimum wage, and a lot of workers would get mad.
ReplyDeleteLaissez Faire I think is not a good policy for the economy because of the trusts, monopolies, and pooling is a way for the big businesses to continue to expand by taking over the smaller businesses and then growing large enough to increase their prices so the big business owners will gain more money but hurts the average consumer. There needs to be some requirements about the amount of a certain industry in order to keep competition in line so the prices wont increase and it wont hurt consumers. Working conditions need to have some requirements or else it might be unfair hours or no breaks, etc. so there needs to be some laws concerning what an average work day limit is and what needs to be included and what cant be happening in a day to day environment. This would be not fair to the people working the job but will again have the big business owners gaining more money in the process. I think the government need to get involved in big businesses because of the regulations needed to make the working conditions fair and there needs to be something to keep competition between different companies so that prices will be dropped down so consumers can buy lower priced products which makes the average consumer not need to pay for an overpriced product because of no competition. President Theodore Roosevelt sided with many labor unions because of the unfair working conditions and President Woodrow Wilson signed the Clayton Antitrust Act which prevented antitrust laws from being used in the court system against the labor unions. Many other presidents realized the need for competition, President Woodrow Wilson created the program called New Freedom which regulates the amount a company can grow in a certain industry, and if it passes this limit it is broken up into smaller companies to increase competition. I feel like the government should be involved to a certain degree in big businesses because there is a need for working conditions to be fair and there cant be monopolies and trusts which affect the average consumer. The government cant be involved to much because if they have to much control, businesses would not be controlled by the people anymore, so the economy would be controlled by the government which is not fair.
ReplyDeletei agree with you but the gov should and shouldnt be for a lot of reasons but it can be a arguing matter between people who have the same idea/concept
DeleteI think President Roosevelt sided with using the Sherman Antitrust Act in a way that helped labor unions like you said. Which is good because the labor unions go along with the government getting involved with businesses because if the government did control the businesses there may not have been so many labor unions fight for good working conditions and stuff cause the government would have already taken care of that.
DeleteI think that the government should get involved cuz I don't want some little kid getting his arm chopped and not even getting paid very much or getting paid after getting his arm chopped off. I would also want people to hav better working conditins cuz in meat factories, they used meat tht was on the foor, and they washed their hands in dirty water tht they used fr the meat.
ReplyDeleteI think government should be allowed to interfere with businesses because if they didn't businesses could eliminate competition and then raise the prices to whatever they wanted. also if government got involved they could help people with bad working conditions long hours little pay and child labor. if government couldn't interfere then problems might occur that we cant fix or the consumers and business owners might not be treated fairly.
ReplyDeleteIn some ways I think laissez faire was a good thing. I think it was good because it made monopolies and there was better prices and more products. I think it wasn't good because the working conditions were bad.
ReplyDeletei think that monopolies were a bad thing.
DeleteI do not think tht the government should be involved with business. I think that if they were involved with business I could sway the people's judgment on the government, the business, or even both. I feel tht if the government were involved then I would jeopardize America.
ReplyDeletei think that laissez faire was a bad idea, i also believe that the government should be involved in business. if the government was not involved in business there would be monoplolies and trusts and the prices would be high pay would be low and hours would be long. government needs to regulate the busineeses so that does not happen. also when the government is invoved there are no monopolies which will increase competition lowering the price for consumers.
ReplyDeletei agree with you because the govenment should be invovled because then the prices will be higher and people wouldn't want to buy higher prices
DeleteLaissez Faire does allow people more freedom to choose what they want to do with their businesses and what "turn" they want to take with it, Laissez Faire has a lot of downfalls. Using Laissez Faire meant people who owned businesses could hire anyone they wanted when they wanted. As a business owner you want to have the most efficient way to create products so in the long-run you create more profit. But, you also needed workers to make your products. The cheapest workers to pay and to "replace" were immigrants. If something happened to that worker that they couldn't do the job they did anymore, they were fired and replace with another immigrant looking for work.
ReplyDeletei do not agree with the laissez faire because the goverment shouldn't do whatever they want. We should do what we have to do and the government should do what they have to do. The government should be involved with the business. When the govenment is not involved there would be more higher prices .
ReplyDeletei think that laissez fair was a bad idea. i think this because the government should be involved, if government wasn't involved monopolies would rule the world. that would also lead to worse and worse working conditions, because the business owners would just want to make more and more money. they should also be involve because the prices of the products would keep going up.
ReplyDeletei dont agree with laissez faire because businesses would have unsanitary and unsafe working conditions. the meat packing industry is a great example. people would work days in a factory with all windows closed so they would be sweaty and dirty. they would come back from their lunch breaks and would wash their hands in the dirty water they used for the meat. if they saw a dead rat they wouldnt even pick it up. laissez faire allowed businesses to do this without anyone knowing.
ReplyDeletei think the gov should be involved a little bit for peoples safety and many other reasons too but they shouldnt because they could if they didn't businesses could eliminate competition and then raise the prices to whatever they wanted. businesses are going to grow and grow they will get bigger and stronger and if the gov dont get involved they can get overwhelmed with power and it could get out of hand.
ReplyDeletei think that the laissez faire was a bad idea.i think that it was a bad idea because a lot of monopolies and trusts happened. i think that the government should've gotten involved because if they did none of that stuff would of happened because the government wouldn't allow it.the government should be involved a lot. they should of knew and controlled everything that went on
ReplyDeletei agree with you that is a bad idea government should be involved with businesses.
DeleteI belive Laissez Faire was a bad thing because these big buisness men had more say than wht the government had to say but these men were bad for the economy because they created monopolies which would put smaller buisnesses out of buisness. But thats why the government should have more power were the people can vote and have a say in government. Also the these people running these buisnesses could have their workers working for sixteen hour days. This was especially bad for the children because as these children got tired they were less alert and more vulnerable to loose fingers or hands in machines.
ReplyDeletei think you are right people should have a right to vote and have a say in government. people go through many bad conditions in factories and that should be stopped.
DeleteLaissez fair was a good idea because they have to know when it is a dangerous place. They also have to have to know fire hazards.They government should be involved to some degree. They should be able to tell the business what they need in order to stay open. They should not be involved when it comes to who to hire.
ReplyDeleteI disagree, the laissez faire isn't a good idea because without the government as part of businesses monopolies can be created causing long working hours dangerous conditions etc.
Deletei think that this was not a good policy. i think this because, the government baisicly runs most things, and if they have a statment or somthing that will help a business out, than they should have a right 2 do so.
ReplyDeletei dont think that this law was a good idea! someone else said that, if the government was not involved in business than, business owners would take advantage of people. things like, working longs hours for very little pay, hazardess working conditions. totaly agree
ReplyDeleteLaissez fair was a bad idea in my opinion because Laissez fair made a lot of monopolies and trusts become. Government should be involved to control the monopolies and the trusts. Monopolies and trusts would make small businesses go out of business and made consumers buy expensive products because there was no other choice. another problem with Laissez fair was many workers suffered form these big businesses workers suffered with low wage, extensive hours, and dangerous conditions. There was also the problem with child labor, children often lost fingers,hands,arms, or even legs. Government should get involved because people need to have a say in government and have the right to vote for what they believe.
ReplyDeletei think the government should only step in if the business wants them to
DeleteI think it was a bad idea because if the government didn't interfere than monopolies could be made creating bad working conditions and long hours and cheap and unhealthy products for a very high price. if the government is part of business the government can create laws banning certain things like working hours.
ReplyDeleteI think that this policy was a bad policy because businesses monopolized each other and had poor working/living conditions and it just wasn't fair to Americans. I think that the government should be involved in businesses so they don't monopolize each other and cause horrible things to happen again but I also don't think that the government should take full control over businesses. In my opinion, I think the government should just have a few laws and regulations that need to be followed for all businesses.
ReplyDeleteI think "laissez faire" was a bad idea although it did allow businesses to try things that they may have wanted to try but couldn't from government restrictions. It was a bad idea because it allowed employers to basically do whatever they wanted like paying their employees next to nothing and providing unsafe and unsanitary working conditions. It also let businesses try out what will help their business succeed and what won't.
ReplyDeleteI think the government should be allowed in big business with some restrictions. They can't tell businesses what to set their prices at or who they can have competition with, I think they should make sure that every business has safe and sanitary working conditions not only for the employees but also for the consumers to make sure whatever they are getting is clean and safe. If the business wants help from the government then they should help the business but if a business is fine on their own and does not want help they should stay out of the way and let the business deal with its own problems.
I Think the government should inter fer with business, to a certain extent. I believe in regulations such as a minimum wage and laws prohibiting things like child labor. The government in my opinion needs to step in and make sure business's aren't taking advantage of anyone. But they also need to let people do there jobs without telling them so much they cant do.
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